These aren't the COM Objects you're looking for

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Claims COM remains core to Windows and modern tooling makes it usable rather than mystical: shows a simple CoInitializeEx RAII wrapper, exposes BSTR pitfalls like the length-prefix and embedded-nul gotchas, compares helpers (ATL, WRL, C++/CX) and shows that C++/WinRT header-only projection gives ISO C++17 wrappers, string_view glue, and better perf; notes WinRT targets Windows 8/10, CPP WinRT ships in the Windows 10 SDK (1803) and exlang is an experimental cross-language effort.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:24My Background
3. 9:44B String
4. 16:03The Atl Library
5. 26:50Windows Runtime
6. 27:19How Do I Access the Windows Runtime
7. 30:02C + + Dx Extensions
8. 35:14What Is C + + Winrt
9. 44:38Strings
10. 48:07Constructors

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